Day: December 12, 2013

Snoop Dogg is no stranger to g-funk, having pioneered the gangsta rap and funk hybrid on his seminal LPs Doggystyle, Tha Doggfather and beyond in the ’90s. Uncle Snoop makes a return to the subgenre he helped create on 7 Days of Funk, his new funk project with Los Angeles’ underground and oft-overlooked funk impresario Dam-Funk. “When you got the funk, it’s a spirit,” says Snoop Dogg aka Snoopzilla for the 7 Days of Funk project. “And the funk can appear out of nowhere and when it happens, either you get funked or get the funk out the way.” For Dam-Funk, who has mostly coasted on the underground LA music scene part of Peanut Butter Wolf’s Stones Throw Records family, funk isn’t just a fad, it’s a lifestyle. “Like Snoop says, it’s like a music that just continues on,” says Dam, born Damon G. Riddick. “And what we’re doing to some of the songs on the album, which you’ll hear, Snoop is taking some different type of writing and lyrical content to put on this style of music, and then, also adding fun and laidback nuances as well, and the laidback nuances are definitely influenced by the G-funk era. So, right now, we’re doing a modern style of funk, but we still keep all the styles of funk that came before us in the mix.” 7 Days of Funk is a 7-track project — well, technically 8-track project with an extra bonus cut, “Systamatic” featuring Snoop brethren Tha Dogg Pound.